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Krome-Oil Pistons Ring Pin-up Girl

Artist:Ben-Hur Baz
Date:1950s
Medium:Oil On Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 16" x 34" Framed 20 1/4" X 38 1/4"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Pin-Up Calendar Art
Price: Sold
Full view of oil on canvas pin-up painting
Full view of oil on canvas pin-up painting
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Framed view

A fresh to the market 1950s original pin-up oil painting that is attributed to Ben-Hur Baz, with custom advertising for Krome-Oil Piston Rings. A busty blonde bombshell ala Marilyn Monroe is shown seductively posed in a new and very revealing bikini that highlights the tan lines left from her past, more modest swimwear. A recent gallery acquisition from an Erie Pennsylvania estate where we also purchased a signed Ben-Hur Baz painting titled Maid In Muskegon, which will be posting soon at the gallery.

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Ben-Hur Baz was a gifted pin-up and glamour artist who became well known in the late 1940s and early 1950s for his association with Esquire magazine. Beginning in 1946, he painted pin-ups for that publication’s Gallery of Glamour and later contributed to their calendars and monthly centerfolds as well. Painting is in a fine state of conservation and handsomely framed and linen lined and ready to enjoy.

Born in Mexico in 1906, Baz was extremely prolific. Aside from pin-up and Glamour art, he provided story illustrations to mainstream magazines, worked on various national advertising campaigns, and was a successful paperback novel cover artist.

Verso view of old pine stretchers and untouched back canvas
Verso view of old pine stretchers and untouched back canvas
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Frame corner profile

Krome-Oil Pistons Ring Pin-up Girl

Artist: Ben-Hur Baz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, advertising, bathing beauty, original calendar art, petroliana, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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